City employees to be part of cleanup blitz

SAN ANGELO, Texas - Most City of San Angelo offices will be closed Friday as city employees participate in the annual neighborhood blitz.

Most city employees will spend the day attending to special projects, including improving the Concho River walking trail and Harmon Park, sprucing up a baseball field at Northern Little League and cleaning alleys, replacing street signs and rehabilitating two fences in the Blackshear neighborhood.

Employees who provide public safety services, such as police officers, firefighters and dispatchers, will not participate in the blitz. Among the City departments that will operate as usual are Water Distribution, San Angelo Regional Airport, Animal Services and Municipal Court. The water billing office will be closed Friday.

Friday’s blitz will mark the fifth time city employees have fanned out across a neighborhood to help revitalize it. Previous blitzes have targeted the Lincoln, Fort Concho, Reagan and Rio Vista areas. To date, 151 homes have been painted, 50 deteriorating mailboxes have been replaced and more than 700 tons of debris and 600 illegally discarded tires have been taken to the landfill.

The effort has grown to two days to include volunteers from local churches, Angelo State University students and Goodfellow Air Force Base personnel.